Ron Paul Quotes (51 Quotes)


    Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

    They've got to make a decision. They've got to ramp it up and start opening at a faster pace, sell it back to the original owners or make a public offering. I think all things are being considered.

    Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

    It is good to get the brand out there because it is a way to get trial and differentiate yourself from the competition.

    They broke the mold when they decided to do music. If bookstores have coffee, then why can't a coffee store sell books and movies


    You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

    When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

    What it comes down to is it's still fashionable to dislike McDonald's. McDonald's is still growing and consumers are spending more money to eat there. I'll bet some of those who said they dislike it are still customers.

    Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

    I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

    We are, of course, proud of the many accomplishments we have achieved over the past 40 years. That said, I am even more excited about our plans for the future.

    If you really want to get beyond just tourist locations, where you aren't dependent on regular customers, then you have to go back to the basics . . . very definitely play down the gimmicks, play down the museum aspects of what you are doing. Make it a di

    When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

    Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

    War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

    There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

    Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

    Without question, we're seeing a slowdown, ... They'll have one glass of wine instead of two, or they're skipping the appetizers.

    Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

    The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

    Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

    Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

    The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation. It is this one-two punch-- Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow, and the Fed printing money to make up the difference-- that threatens to impoverish us by further destroying the value of our dollars.

    How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

    All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

    Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

    It's not well-situated in the Loop. It doesn't have a vibrant evening audience to draw from.

    There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

    Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

    I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

    Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

    I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

    1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

    The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

    If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

    A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

    Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

    Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

    Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

    The younger generation isn't gravitating toward that. They've grown up with many more options. They're more interested in experimenting and in healthy, natural foods.

    What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

    As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

    Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

    Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

    Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

    There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

    You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

    I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

    Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

    To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.


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